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...Verena Conley are, for lack of a better term, baller. Though no longer for credit, Tom still offers his immensely popular Wine Seminar every spring. He’s also a regular staple of Stein Clubs, where his conversation vacillates between sophisticated chatter about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation at the drop...
Agnes Varda is a French film director, and she and her films are gracing the Harvard Film Archive until the 16th. A different film every night, ranging from Paris in the 1960s in "Cleo de 5 a 7" and "Lions Love" to look at the periphery of modern French life in the documentary "The Gleaners." (See website for showtimes; free for Harvard students...
...Sarkozy's conservative supporters counter that remaining soft on Internet piracy will lead French artists to rapid ruin. Within the past five years alone, French record companies have seen sales plunge by more than 50%, mostly because of illegal music downloading. Polls indicate that more than one-third of French people say they have downloaded and exchanged copyright-protected files at least once. Entertainment-industry organizations say about 450,000 illegal downloads take place in France each day. That has cost French musicians and studios about $10 million in royalties annually over the past five years. That loss of financial...
...urgent to get out of this situation that's as dangerous for Internet users as it is dramatic for French cultural creators and industries," Albanel told parliament. The bill, she says, is needed to defend France's "cultural exception." It's "also a realistic project that of course does not claim it will completely eradicate the mass phenomenon of pirating cultural works on the Internet...
...stake. Studies estimate that nearly 95% of music downloaded around the globe in 2008 - 40 billion files - was illegal. That would suggest that a ban in France might not actually help French artists too much because their work could still be pilfered elsewhere. But the sad truth is that royalties for presidential buddies like withered rocker Johnny Hallyday or comic actor Christian Clavier still do come primarily from France. After all, who else really wants their stuff in the first place...